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- (Application and Mar. 23, 1899.)

(No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EVA GUILD OSGOOD, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 645,488, dated March 13,1900.

Application filed March 2 3 1 8 99- To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVA GUILD Oseoon, a citizen of the United States,residing at Malden, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUnion Suits, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garments designed specially for children and isof. the class known as union suits, being a combined undershirt or waistand diaper. The garment is in one piece and is open at the shoulders andadapted to be opened at the bottom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the completegarment. Fig. 2 shows the lower part open. Fig. 3 is a section showingthe hose-support, and Fig. 4 shows a detail of the construction of theupper part of the sleeve.

The body of the garment is shown at A, and the front portion is providedwith a V-shaped lower edge a, terminating in a laterally-extending edgeon each side, as at b. The back of the garment extends downwardly belowthe lateral edges of the front and is practically of V shape. The backsection is adapted to be folded on the line 0 c, which brings it intosuch relation to the lower edge of the front section as to formleg-openings at each side, while the central part closes the V-shapedlower edge of the front section, being buttoned thereto by buttons andbuttonholes, as at d. This back section 0 I prefer to line with rubbercloth, and this may be in the form of Serial No. 710,261. (No model.)

a removable piece f, or it may be permanently secured in place. Y

The shoulder of the garment is open, the front and rear parts beingbuttoned together, and in order to easily apply the garment I extend theshoulder-openings along the upper side of the sleeve, as shown at g, thesleeve being made also with a certain amount of fullness by the use ofgores.

In order to provide for the hose-supporter, I insert a tape h on theinside of the garment, the ends of the tape extending one to the frontand one to the rear, where they pass through an incision in the garment,one end of the tape passing over the shoulder and fastened with theother end. A loop is thus formed through which the stocking-supportermay pass or to which it may be secured instead of being fastened to thegarment.

' What I claim is' As an article of manufacture, a garment having theshoulder part from the neck to the arm and the contiguous portion of thesleeve open or slitted, and supporting-tapes depending in the garment,having their ends passing through the garment near the shoulder portionon opposite sides of the slits in said shoulders and a detachableconnection between the ends of said, tapes.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EVA GUILD OSGOOD.

WVitnesses:

O. H. WELoH, F. LAZZARO.

